Māngungu Mission

Bay of Islands & Northland


Completed in 1839, this sweet wooden cottage contains relics of the missionaries who once inhabited it, and of Horeke’s shipbuilding past. In the grounds there's a large stone cross and a simple wooden church. Māngungu is 1km down the unsealed road leading along the harbour from Horeke village.


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